Lucy speaks to Marcela Navarrete, an immigration solicitor and partner at Wilsons Solicitors in Tottenham about immigration and asylum laws in the UK.

Follow the links below to learn more about these issues, legal frameworks and the corrosive effects of the UK's hostile environment policies have on our communities.

If you are facing removal or deportation, you can find advice here.

Please note this episode was recorded before the government’s changes on to the nationality 'good character' requirement which will refuse citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK 'illegally,' regardless of how long ago this occurred.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Instagram and Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
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Afghanistan: judge hunted by Taliban wins court case against UK government

Joint briefing – securing access to justice: the need for legal aid in immigration

Keir Starmer’s Reform-lite strategy reaches breaking point

Lights, camera, and a new low: why is the government making Deportation TV

‘Workers are being employed as indentured labour’

At least one in ten children in care is non-British and faces an uncertain future unless immigration status is resolved

The impact of forced family separation on a child

The 3 Million – EU citizens’ issues

Inside the Home Office spin room

New anti-refugee bill before parliament

People smugglers aren’t terrorists and ‘smashing the gangs’ won’t work

Lucy talks to Ghassan Ghaben, a lawyer and member of the British Palestinian Committee about the Gaza Families Reunited campaign and the mutual aid group, Reviving Gaza.

Follow the links below to find out about Gaza Families Reunited, Reviving Gaza and other issues discussed in the episode.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
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Links

Reviving Gaza: water aid ‘24

Reviving Gaza Instagram page

Reviving Gaza Just Giving page

Write to your MP: Gaza family scheme

Gaza Families Reunited Instagram page

Gaza Families Reunited X page

Will my family still be alive when I wake up?

Justice, freedom and international law: a new policy framework for the UK government on Palestine

RAMFEL new report on the UK’s broken family reunion system

The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza – Owen Jones

Gaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 and June 2024, analysis suggests

Traumatic Injury Mortality in the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture-recapture analysis

Caabu Palestine resources

100 Years Since Balfour

Marissa Begonia, Director of The Voice of Domestic Workers, speaks to Lucy about her life as a domestic worker and her campaign for domestic workers' rights.

Follow the links below to find out more about Marissa's journey and The Voice of Domestic Workers as well as issues relating to the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa and the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
We’d love to hear from you!

Links

Marissa Begonia: the invisible workforce – my fight for migrant domestic workers in the UK (Being the Story speech)

Hard Graft: work, health and rights (Wellcome Collection)

The Voice of Domestic Workers

Channel 4 News report: The domestic slaves rescued from London’s richest streets

Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse

UK’s richest family convicted of exploiting servants

The NRM: no substitute for workers’ rights

Kalayaan: The National Referral Mechanism – near breaking point

Immigration crackdown sees British modern slavery victims imprisoned

Unite the Union: United Migrant Workers Education Programme

Covid-19 music fundraiser for domestic workers